I have helped Jasmine to sleep by stalling on our purchase of the latest Harry Potter novel. The burning question: Should we buy in hard copy or as an e-book? The e-book option has lots of attractions but would not look as good on the shelf next to the other printed and bound volumes.
Yes, it is starting to look quite impressive with that line up of brightly coloured spines, even though I don't have the first three in hardcover. E-books are useful but there is still something really nice about having a solid book in your hands.
I like:
"Books That Fill You With Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified." (Italo Calvino);
Music that “washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." (Bertold Auerbach);
Movies in which "the camera is an eye in the head of a poet." (Orson Welles);
Dancing that “is silent poetry." (Simonides);
Travel that "(like love) is an attempt to follow a dream into reality." (Alain de Botton).
3 Comments:
At 4:48 pm, Anonymous said…
I have helped Jasmine to sleep by stalling on our purchase of the latest Harry Potter novel. The burning question: Should we buy in hard copy or as an e-book? The e-book option has lots of attractions but would not look as good on the shelf next to the other printed and bound volumes.
At 5:07 pm, Marissa said…
Yes, it is starting to look quite impressive with that line up of brightly coloured spines, even though I don't have the first three in hardcover. E-books are useful but there is still something really nice about having a solid book in your hands.
At 8:25 am, Astrid said…
Oh, who needs sleep anyhow? I'll have plenty of time to sleep when I am dead.
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